About Us and Services

Elisa Bronfman, Ph.D.

Elisa Bronfman, PhD, is a senior staff psychologist at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she specializes in supporting children, teens, and families coping with medical illness. In her 25 years at the hospital, she has provided training, supervision, and individual and family psychotherapy, as well as conducted numerous patient and caregiver groups targeting a range of child issues, including coping with medical illness, managing behavioral issues, building executive functioning, coping with anxiety and emotional dysregulation, and transitioning to adult care.  Dr. Bronfman is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; first author of the Atypical Maternal Behavior Instrument for Assessment and Classification (AMBIANCE), a research tool used to assess parent−infant attachment, on which she provides training nationally and internationally; and coauthor of publications appearing in both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed journals and books on a range of topics. 

Johanna Sagarin, Ph.D.

Johanna D. Sagarin, PhD, is a psychologist teaching and coordinating graduate internships at Assumption University as well as working in private practice. After working at Boston Children’s Hospital, Dr. Sagarin was Vice President of Children’s Friend, in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she directed their community mental health clinic specializing in youth and families for close to two decades. In this setting, she helped develop specialized programs in grief and in working with LGBTQIA+ youth and their families. She has supervised and consulted with many clinicians; been active in teaching at the university level for many years; and given numerous trainings and workshops for both the professional and lay communities.